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hesperian

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
Hes=pe=ri=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

hesperiana. [L. hesperius, fr. hesperus the evening star, Gr. evening, the evening star. Cf. Vesper.].
     Western; being in the west; occidental.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
hesperiann. 
     A native or an inhabitant of a western country.  J. Barlow.  [1913 Webster]
hesperiana. 
     Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidæ, or skippers.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hesperian, adj. poet.
1 western.
2 (in Greek mythology) of or concerning the Hesperides (nymphs who guarded the garden of golden apples at the western extremity of the earth).

Etymology
L Hesperius f. Gk Hesperios (as HESPERUS)

ROGET THESAURUS

hesperian

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.


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